Fernandez de Miranda gives an exposition (in Spanish) of the phonetics of the Ixcatec language of Oaxaca State in Mexico with the assistance of a 54-year-old native speaker (male) of Santa Maria Ixcatlán.

Collection Technical Notes:

The original recording was done (or begun) on February 13, 1950, at the “Laboratorio de Sonido” of the Museo Nacional de Antropologia (in Mexico City). The set consists of three wire recordings from Mexico which may, or may not, be the originals. In any case, they were copied onto audio tapes at the Old Lab c. 1954-62. Note: The DMA has a copy of the transcription F. de M. made of the recordings. Also note: Spool No. 2 of the wire recordings is missing. The WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.

Andres Medina, speaking Spanish and reading from the standard vocabulary list, elicits the Tzeltal equivalents from a number of speakers. [Note that the spelling of various personal and place names varies considerably.]

Collection Technical Notes:

Masters are the original field recordings. The backs of the boxes have been scanned: see files "tzh-a700222p001" through "tzh-a7002249y001" inside the "tzh" folder inside Tzeltal-Tzotizil_boxes inside Text_images folder inside "dma". WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.

Edited studio recordings that were deemed unplayable (dried-out stock, too many sticky splices, etc.) have been discarded. In 1994-96 Sheri Pargman used mainly the copy masters (rather than the (heavily edited) studio recordings to make the DAT back-ups.

Norman McQuown and two other men,speaking Spanish, put the standard questionnaire to a number of native speakers (male and female) in the "comunidad" of Venustiano Carranza (Chiapas State, Mexico) in August 1958.

Collection Technical Notes:

Tapes are a subset of all the original field recordings from San Bartolo, which Norman McQuown renumbered using Roman numerals, beginning with Nos. I through XVII. Note: The old numbering ends with No. 18 (=XVII) apparently because old Tape No. 10 was lost. Furthermore, there is no No. XVIII in this series probably because the number was inadvertently skipped over. WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.

A man identified only as "REH" reads a series of Spanish words from the standard list to native speakers (male and female), who supply the Tzeltal equivalents.

Collection Technical Notes:

Tapes form a subset of the tapes recorded in the comunidad of Aguacatenango, Chiapas State, Mexico. Norman McQuown assigned Roman numerals to all the Aguacatenango recordings, starting with a 1962 recording. By that token this series begins with "II" and continues through "XIV". (Note: the (Arabic) numerals used for the digitized files follow the Roman numerals beginning with "II".) In 1976 Franklin McCabe Lee tight-wound these tapes in order to preserve them. WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.

Norman McQuown and several (male) colleagues read the Spanish words from the standard vocabulary list, and a number of native speakers (male and female) from Amatenango (del Valle) in Chiapas supply the Tzeltal equivalents.

Collection Technical Notes:

Masters are the original field recordings. Norman McQuown assigned Roman numerals ("I" to "XIV") to the Amatenango interviews of 1957-58. A further interview of Consultant #489 was recorded after a Tzotzil interview of 8/28/58 on the same tape, so did not get a Roman numeral. Here that interview is given the number "16".

Norman A. McQuown elicits vocabulary items from native Chamula speakers (almost all male) using two techniques: 1) by reading them a standardized list of tokens in Spanish and 2) by showing them a series of pictures and/or figurines (sometimes in the context of a Thematic Apperception Test ("TAT").

Collection Technical Notes:

Masters are the field-recorded tapes. Note that scanned images have been made of the backs of the boxes. Circa 1978 Franklin McCabe Lee leadered and tight-wound these tapes for the purpose of preservation. The WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.

Two native consultants (male) voice the lessons in the ¡Hablemos en Tzeltal! language course, prompted (in Spanish) by Norman McQuown. The course is based on a book of the same title by Carlos Antonio Castro G. (Instituto Nacional Indigenista, San Cristobal Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico).